| # | Name | Comments |
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| 2701 | Tom Robinson | My wife and I use linux at home. I use linux in my role as a proffessional contractor. I frequently use the BBC website to read and watch the news and listen again. |
| 2702 | Rowan Puttergill | Hi
I use Linux at home and at work and frequently check the BBC website for news updates... unfortunately viewing video on the website is nigh impossible, so I don't bother trying any more.
By the way, my partner also uses Linux as her desktop OS and is constantly complaining about the BBC's video streams not being adequately supported.
I hope this gets fixed. |
| 2703 | Peter Davis | |
| 2704 | Matt Johnson | |
| 2705 | manny | a big buuu to the BBC
i will watch a whole lot less shows from them from now on |
| 2706 | kamran anvaar | I don't think the BBC should be concidering Linux users, nore Apple users nore Windows users. The Internet should be operating system neutral. The BBC is funded by us licence payers so should not be promoting comercial interests such as Microsoft and Real Networks. It annoys me that Windows Media Player and Real Player are the only options, why can't I just use the player I want. |
| 2707 | James MacRae | Yes Windows is the prevalent OS, but to say there are only 400 to 600 users using Linux is surely just ridiculous. I am no linux socialite either, and I would appear to know about 5% of the linux population going to the BBC website?? |
| 2708 | Mike Fishbulb | I lawled. |
| 2709 | Tom Mann | Want to refund my TV License for failure to deliver a service? |
| 2710 | Thomas Jepp | |
| 2711 | Anonymous | Linux may not be perfect ... but have you really tried to use MICROSOFT's latest creation on last year's PC? |
| 2712 | Alan Harding | Since I've retired I can no longer afford the high prices of Microsoft software. I am a life long listener and supporter of the BBC but I am more than a little disappointed that as a Linux user I cannot participate. |
| 2713 | Petra Hoffmann | We exclusively use Linux to access the internet and for all other computer applications in our home. The benefits are too many to mention. We are most disappointed at the stance taken by the BBC. |
| 2714 | Anonymous | If the BBC don't support the operating system, why should I support their TV tax based funding?
Take adverts and join the real world, we are tired of your ignorance of reality. |
| 2715 | arthur | linux till the end |
| 2716 | Larry McCauley | The company that is Microsoft have been deluded in thinking that an inferior product could be held together by marketing alone. The inability of the OS to be secure by default, the host of viruses and malware, the self inflicted wound that is genuine advantage. If windows was a person it would be in long term care. I have recently installed ubuntu on two machines that had screwed up versions of windows on them. Using a live Linux CD called 'knoppix' I rescued their personal files with jaw dropping ease. I installed ubuntu on them. They now love their ubuntu in a way that is impossible to do with windows. Linux is an idea whose time has come for desktop use. It is about to go viral over the next eighteen months or so. Take a look. Prove me wrong. |
| 2717 | Anonymous | This assertion is ridiculous. |
| 2718 | Jim Whitey | If there really were only 400-600 regular BBC website visitors using Linux, then my immediate family would make up 1% of them.
Of course this is absurd. |
| 2719 | Les Orton | Why is the BBC site aimed at Microsoft users only, when we all pay our license fees & we all don't use Windows. |
| 2720 | Luke Blaney | I use Linux wherever I can - at home, on my laptop, and at uni. |
| 2721 | Van Bogaert Bruno | |
| 2722 | Luke Antins | Diehard Slackware user (is there any other?) |
| 2723 | K Smith | I have the BBC site as my default on my personal Ubuntu laptop which I use on a daily basis. (Even though I haven't got the radio streamer to work yet!) |
| 2724 | Ian McMurray | |
| 2725 | keith grace | |
| 2726 | Alan Levett | I have just loaded a 'new' system and watched 'Click'. As I did not have RealPlayer, a LINUX VERSION was offered as download.
Did the head of Tech. know about it? |
| 2727 | Simon Hutley | What an idiot! I know loads of people who use Linux and I'm not even a techie, I'm a bus driver. |
| 2728 | ian florence | I'm a new LINUX user recently converted to an ever expanding community who cannot use the BBC iPlayer software and will not get the digital switch over in my area until 2014. Yet I still have to pay for a full TV license.
I want fair access to publicly paid for BBC content. |
| 2729 | Bob Boby | I use linux and windows, some times on each other! |
| 2730 | Anonymous | Seriously!? 400-600 users. Ashley Highfield (BBC head of technology)... you've not a clue mate! |
| 2731 | James Nally | |
| 2732 | John Duffy | |
| 2733 | David Silvey | 3rd petition i've signed accessed bbc site using Linux every time. |
| 2734 | Anonymous | |
| 2735 | Chris steele | I use linux both at home and work and regularly visit the bbc news site but trying to watch streamed video is a pain |
| 2736 | Anonymous | |
| 2737 | Lukas Matasovsky | |
| 2738 | Eur Ing Christopher Thoday | As a public service broadcaster the BBC should be supporting open standards not a commercial supplier with a near monopoly and a very poor record of security. If Open Source Software (such as Linux and Python) is good enough for Google why is the BBC wasting large sums of licence fee payer's money on proprietary software? Open Source Software is important for developing countries (for example the One Laptop Per Child Project) and should be part of the BBC's mission. |
| 2739 | James Clark | |
| 2740 | Stathis Titopoulos | It's more about free/open standards than specific OSs. We, the public, should be able to access the content in any -reasonable- way we want to, using whichever tools we are comfortable with / prefer.
And yes, I do use Linux whenever I can!
And I do pay for the TV License. |
| 2741 | Douglas William Brown | I have four colleagus at work who use Linux. Scale that up across the country ... |
| 2742 | Anonymous | |
| 2743 | Stewart Baylis | |
| 2744 | Stewart Baylis | |
| 2745 | mike choy | We have 8 Linux computers in our house, including the new Nokia internet tablet. I would be really nice if BBC websites were as accessible as what I think my license money pays for. |
| 2746 | David Wardle | We use a linux box in our living room to watch digital terrestrial TV using MythTV software. We therefore can not comfortably use the BBC iPlayer system. I refuse to install a Microsoft operating system just to use this service. |
| 2747 | Anonymous | |
| 2748 | onlocash | I run Ubuntu Gamer's edition and it's awesome..originslly from Ubuntu Ultimate |
| 2749 | Paul Nutley | I use ubuntu linux everyday. its so much faster than Vista, and its Free! |
| 2750 | jason ball | I am new to linux but can see from my use of ubuntu linux that more and more people will make the choice to use it due to the quality.please be inclusive of all forms of technology . |